: : : I have suffered with a fast heart rate for over 10 years now. Iam a 30 year old female. I never know when it is going to come on. It used to come every year at least once or twice and within the last year it has been coming more often. I have had an episode once a month for the last 3 months. My heart rate gets up to 200 beats a minute and it lasts for hours. Is ther anyone else out there that has it last this long? What medication do you take if any? What does your doctor say? My doctor says not to worry about it and that it isnt going to harm me. When it is beating that fast i get so wiped out and feel tired and cant do much. I take atenolol about 50 mg a day sometimes 75mg a day My doctor says i can take verapamil with the atenolol if i want. I also have PVC's or PAC's where the heart feels like it is skipping a beat.: : : I would love to hear from anyone that deals with what i do. You can email me to . Thanks so much: : : From Gibran

: : Hi...I too have these episodes that you are experiencing. My cardiologist told me it is PSVT. My heartrate has gotten up 260 bpm and I have had to go to the ER twice in 2 weeks before. I was put on Verapamil 80 mg three times a day ..240 mg total per day. the verapamil has pretty much had it under control until recently, but I do have a chest cold and sometimes when I have a cold, or infection, or especially fever, it brings on my episodes. I do not have caffeine at all, in any form. I also have to stay away from artificial sweetneres, such as equal, etc. I cannot have diet drinks or any desserts with this in them, or else my episodes start up. I sometimes have pain in my arms and neck with my episodes, which my cardiologist says is normal, that I am not having a heart attack. It is very scary though.I wish you lots of luck....let me know how you are...

: Hi;: I am still in the diagnostic stages. Had an echo done of the heart chambers etc. Negative.I drove myself to the Er after 2 hours of a racing heart.In the Er it showed 225 per minute. After I received ogygen and laid down it dropped to 99 within seconds.The cardiologist on duty said it was svt.I am wearing an event monitor for 1 month and press the button when an episode occurs. Then call it in by sending the recording.It is worse than a panic attack. I dealt with those of and on and took a tranquilizer which never let me down.: Most of my adult life I used artificial sweetners.: Was concerned about diabetes. Does this aggrevate the racing heart problem? Has this been proven?Anyhow I won't rest till I find a remedy. This is not funny. Sometimes it happens after I eat. Sometimes it happens when I srape my throat. Mine sarted with flutters years ago and matured into a racing heart. Doesn't it knock the wind out of you though? I am 54 years old live healthy non smoker and try to think good thoughts.Good Luck to all and keep us informed. Jeanne

Hi,My mother has suffered from spells as we call them that sound similar. She also wore the monitor and called in the spells. Unfortunatley, she did not have a really intense one while she had the monitor. She had one for about 9 hours last week and had one today for several hours. I do not know how high her heart rate has gotten. Today she checked her bp 83/65 and her pulse was 100. This was at a time when she said she felt better. She has said that the spells do not occur with the exact same symptoms every time. Sometimes they start with a racing heart and move into her head. She says it moves to different parts of her body. Her doctor said before he ran any tests that he knew what she had but he has done nothing about it (except charge her for the tests). I wonder if this could be what she has. I am trying to research PSVT. Does anyne else have similar symptoms?